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The Colorado chapter of Unite America, a grassroots political group that works to get independent candidates elected to state offices, is targeting the 2018 House District 25 race in an effort “bridge the growing partisan divide” both locally and statewide.

Announced just days before the statewide caucuses March 6, Unite Colorado’s executive director Nick Troiano says the effort stems from what he sees as an opportunity for an independent candidate to take the district.

Nearly three years after it was revived, the building trades program at Conifer High School will be shuttered next year because of a lack of interest from area students.

According to Diana Wilson, spokeswoman for Jeffco Public Schools, the district’s decision to put the program on hold earlier this year had everything to do with a lack of student interest versus district-level funding challenges.

The Colorado chapter of Unite America, a grassroots political group that works to get independent candidates elected to state offices, is targeting the 2018 House District 25 race in an effort “bridge the growing partisan divide” both locally and statewide.

Announced just days before the statewide caucuses March 6, Unite Colorado’s executive director Nick Troiano says the effort stems from what he sees as an opportunity for an independent candidate to take the district.

Conifer and Evergreen residents at a Jeffco Public Schools-sponsored school safety meeting agreed with officials and others there that the district needed to find funding both for more security measures at area schools and more mental health resources for students and staff.

In anonymous breakout sessions following the main presentation on March 20, several people voiced concern that more wasn’t being done to protect schools in Conifer and Evergreen.

Ian Dunbar, the technology teacher at Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen, has been selected for the Space Foundation’s 2018 Teacher Liaison program — beating out more than two dozen other applicants for a spot on this year’s roster.

It has been more than four decades since Jamee Chambers first began pushing for a way to protect Morrison’s historic buildings and quirky charm.

She finally has a means of doing so with the unanimous passing of the Old Town Historic Overlay District at Morrison’s March 20 board meeting.

The plan aims to protect the town’s historic resources by creating rules and regulations for future businesses in downtown Morrison. While current businesses are grandfathered in, the rules apply should they wish to make changes in the future.

The second suspect in starting last year’s North Turkey Creek Fire has been charged and will return for a May 7 arraignment in Jefferson County court.

Riley Costello, 19, is accused of lighting Roman candles while Jeffco was in a stage-2 fire ban and is charged with a class-4 felony of second-degree arson. He appeared in court on Friday for a disposition hearing.

A class-4 felony carries the potential of two to six years in prison, though prison is not mandatory.

Dreams, magic and the difficulties of love are central to the story in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and King-Murphy Elementary School’s drama club was glad to tell its audiences all about it.

The club recently performed a shortened version of the classic Shakespeare comedy for parents and students, under the direction of Stephanie Hobbs, a long-term substitute third-grade teacher who has taken on the club.

Following another stellar season in which the Evergreen girls basketball team won consecutive state championships, head coach Amy Bahl earned recognition from the Denver Post as their All-Colorado girls basketball coach of the year — something the paper has been recognizing since 1993.